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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · 3d

This doesn’t bode well for my talk tomorrow, but this is why we have universities. Maybe the next generation of leaders won’t allow a genocide to happen under their eyes.

Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · 9d

So much for "don't be evil" ...sickening how these corporations keep paying Trump.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for the warm welcome and looking forward to meeting many of you. I'm here all week :)

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · 21d

The FCC's intervention is not just about curbing freedom of speech. Every federal institution has political appointees who are strongarming and blackmailing private businesses into donating to the Trump Cosa Nostra.

Jimmy Kimmel’s cancellation is the latest sign we’re witnessing the end of US democracy

Under the Trump administration, the widespread, coordinated suppression of dissent is are ripping apart the fabric of American political life.

theconversation.com

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · 22d

"The starting point should be that the employment rates and share of benefit recipients of immigrants would be roughly the same as those of Finns." I'll be sure to ask this economist what was the last war or genocide he escaped from.

IS selvitti: Nämä kieliryhmät saavat eniten Kelan toimeentulotukea – kolme ryhmää ylikorostuu

Ilta-Sanomat selvitti Kelasta toimeentulotuen saajia äidinkielten perusteella ja vertasi lukuja kieliryhmien kokoon.

www.is.fi

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · 25d

I can just see this discontinuity in seminar slides years from now when we'll examine effects on morbidity, sick days, house values, etc.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Sep 4

Just a reminder that the much needed recognition of Palestine is not just a political bargaining chip and a message to Israel, but has very real implications for the lives of Palestinians abroad.

Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Aug 30

Well the current administration made his wishlist true anyway

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great to see this in print : we develop a general equilibrium model of competition between for-profit, public and NFP colleges. We quantify the response of for-profit colleges to changes in public subsidies, and "gainful employment" legislation that links federal funding to student loan repayment.

The Rise of For‐Profit Higher Education: A General Equilibrium Analysis

For-profit colleges have increased their share of the 4-year college market, particularly among nontraditional and online students, raising concerns about post-graduation outcomes. We set up and cali...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Aug 27

New WP: we link 1940,2000,2010 census & Numident U.S. death records to study the education–mortality gradient, which we find robust to rich parental and neighborhood controls; mediators observed in 2000 explain over half the gradient, with interesting differences across margins of educ. attainment.

Education and Mortality: Evidence for the Silent Generation from Linked Census and Administrative Data

We quantify the effect of education on mortality using a linkage of the full count 1940, 2000, and 2010 US census files and the Numident death records...

www.iza.org

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Aug 2

I don’t know what worries me more: Trump firing the BLS commissioner like any old dictator, or the language of appeasement that the NY Times has adopted when reporting on this presidency.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jul 29

www.ermas.ro/2025/

ERMAS 2025 - The 11th edition, July 30th-August 1st, 2025, Iași, Romania, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, National Bank of Romania and Babeș Bolyai University

www.ermas.ro

Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jul 29

In Iași for the annual Romanian economists from abroad conference www.ermas.ro. All sessions in English and foreign presenters welcome.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jul 19

tässä on yksi harvoista vilkkaista paikoista lähiössä, Puotila

Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jun 30

A few years ago economist Guido Menzio was reported as a potential terrorist to cabin crew as he was writing differential equations and integrals that looked like Arabic to the person seated next to him. That person is now running the country.

David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Jun 27

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jun 28

I know of so many academics who did not get the message of the "there was no one left to speak for me" poem 😔

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jun 26

Arrived in Toronto for SOLE 2025. Everyone at the border was friendly, and no one asked to see if I had pictures of JD Vance on my phone.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jun 18

You can have as many lists of banned words you want, the systematic genocide the Israeli army is perpetrating in Gaza and the racism, corruption and incompetence of the Trump administration can be seen from space.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jun 16

I have decided to cancel all travel to the U.S. during my sabbatical and beyond. Growing up in a communist totalitarian regime, I am sickened every day by Trump and the far right leaders he supports all over the world, and I don't want to put my institution and host institutions at various risks.

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · Jun 15

Rotating lectern made in 1792, the LLM of its time, at the Naples Royal Palace. Great conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)- next year in Helsinki !

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · May 31

Thanks for starting this. Could you please add me?

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · May 26

Welcome to Bluesky :) It was great to meet your research team !

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · May 22

Socialist East German early childcare policies really stand out in terms of coverage - from "Can Early Public Childcare Reduce Child Penalties? - Evidence from Germany", Lisa Marie Duletzki

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · May 20

We are organizing a panel on the Labor Market Outcomes of LGBT Employees at the Aalto School of Business Tuesday next week- two academic presentations (Kitt Carpenter, Ylva Moberg), networking break, and policy panel (Seta, EY and Havulintu). Details here: www.aalto.fi/en/events/la...

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Ciprian Domnisoru @cipriandomnisoru.bsky.social · May 18

Romanians voted against the pro-Putin/pro-MAGA nationalist. In 2016 in the U.S., Russia ran a disinfo blitz for Trump. Russia did the same in Romania in 2024, but the Rom. Constitutional Court scrapped round 1. Moscow kept at it—and Musk, JD Vance & Don Jr. piled on. Voters still said NO.

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